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My current flat panel monitor will be 10 years old in July, is this normal or exceptional?
I'm aware that people have had printers for many years, my previous one, an HP Laserjet 4L, lasted 12 years.
I'd be interested in other's experience of long lasting IT hardware.
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Probably the oldest kit I have running is a Dell Dimension from about seven years ago which runs Windows 7 without too much of an issue. Also a MacBook Pro which is of about the same age.
Haven't had much success with printers - probably because they were inkjets rather than laser.
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Epson inkjet printers used to "fail" because the waste ink pad was assumed to be full.
Google "epson ink pad full?" for a detailed account.
I'm not sure if they still do this but hundreds of otherwise good printers must have been dumped.
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Had a Dell Dimension running Win98 and it went for 12 years - powered up for most of the time although it would go into sleep/hibernate when not required so did have a large number of on/off cycles. It just became too slow and changes meant I no longer needed it for hosting printers and ISDN fax.
LaserJet5P from '95 which is still going strong ...
An 8 year old Dell Latitude laptop that is used occasionally and a Toshiba Laptop coming up 10 years ...
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My HP OfficeJet 725 is still going strong. I can't remember when I bought it but I was using Win95 at the time.
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My HP 710c still going strong originally bought for use with Win98, so what 12 years?
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A little bit of TLC and they'll keep going for ages. The waste ink "tank" isn't full yet (touch wood.) One advantage of HP's integrated print heads - you don't waste half your ink cleaning the heads. 
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My Amstrad PCW 8512 is up in the loft. No reason to believe it wouldn't work if I plugged it in.
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My Toshiba Satellite 210 CS laptop (circa 1999) still works. Use it to program urc remote controllers when I get a new device.
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My BBC Micro is in the loft. I'd use it but it takes up too much desk space. It's a damn sight faster than Windows.
Thinks... Built-in SSD and Raspberry Pi co-processor... Hmm...
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I still occasionally use the casio fx-451 calculator I used for work (circa 1986). Solar powered and still the best calculator I've used.
http://www.cantares.on.ca/muscalc/
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The fx-451 was brilliant. Mine gave up the ghost long ago. I now have an fx-83W [spit] 
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Just checked mine. Still working fine. What broke on yours?
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Just checked mine. Still working fine. What broke on yours? The spine and connectors, iirc - it's been a long time
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My abacus is still in fine working order even if the beads are a bit discoloured.
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Ah yes, there is a slight split in my Casio's spine. I've been especially careful never to open beyond flat since.
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I have got a couple of slide rules still. They were for school though, not work.
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I've got, and still use, an HP 15C as featured in your link. They rightly say One of the best calculators ever made Quite a collector's item nowadays.
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I have got a couple of slide rules still. They were for school though, not work. Yep! Still got my British Thornton - very well-used at uni but not afterwards.
Calculators? Pah! Youngsters these days don't know they're born. We 'ad it tough.
P.S. We did use mechanical calculators - but only for sadistics. 
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I realised I was not cut out to be an entrepreneur when I started buying fellow pupil's slide rules to sell on to the lower years just as cheap as chips electronic calculators took off.
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My abacus is still in fine working order even if the beads are a bit discoloured.
My 68 year old fingers are still working fine but they sometimes get confused if lubricated with red wine. 
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Have still got my 6" and 12" slide rules - and can still use them!
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Hewlett Packard DeskJet 550C Laser-quality Black and Colour Printer. 
I bought the printer back in 1993 new £630 it is now 19 years old and still in use, I have to get my moneys worth out of it!
http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=310
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF10a/18972-...
The original HP Ink Cartridges are expensive now though.
http://www.toner24.co.uk/Toner/HP/DeskJet_550C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Deskjet
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You can still pick up cheap OEM ink carts on eBay - they're out of date but still work. Stock up, though. They're getting scarce.
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